If you google Sylvia Plath, it’s hard to find her described in any terms other than the superlative. ‘One of the finest lyric poets of the twentieth century,’ is pretty close to the general assessment. Continue reading
Sylvia Plath: Godmother of Punk Rock?
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags Ariel, Black Flag, Buddy Willard, Catcher in the Rye, Colossus, Esther Greenwood, Henry Rollins, punk, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar on August 6, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
Rodney Hall: A Stolen Season
Posted in Fiction, Reading, Real Men with tags A Stolen Season, Autumn of the Patriarch, Belize, Central America, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Saunders, James Joyce, Mayan, Miles Franklin Award, Rodney Hall, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, Ulysses on July 16, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
At the gym – working on the gun show.
Rodney Hall is one of Australia’s greatest living writers. He has been nominated for the Miles Franklin Award seven times and if he wins this year, it’ll be the third time he’s gone home with the prize.
I have known him for eighteen years and he never fails to deliver on the subject of literature. He has been kind enough to wax lyrical at the Theme Park on matters literary and a few others that happen to intersect within his purview.
T.P: I’m guessing that if the Miles Franklin Award was predicated on biceps, you’d win that. Continue reading
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Vegan Apocalypse
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags Jan Fran, The Cornish Arms, Vegan on July 8, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
Last Saturday, I caught up with a couple of my closest friends at the Cornish Arms Hotel. One of us has severe dietary intolerances and we opted for the Cornish Arms because the vegan menu most closely resembles a cuisine his gut can manage. Continue reading
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Bert Kreischer and the Mechanics of Subversion
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags Ali Wong, AR15, Baby Cobra, Barack Obama, Bert Kreischer, bump stock, Glock, Hannah Gadsby, Hard Knock Wife, Homer Simpson, Las Vegas Shooting, Melbourne Arts Centre, Netflix, Sandy Hook, The Machine on June 29, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
I went to see Bert Kreischer last Saturday night. I realised, once he came onstage and took off his shirt, that I had seen him before: he tells the story of his student trip to Russia in the viral video ‘The Machine.’ Continue reading
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Modern Love
Posted in Music, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Slayer with tags Appetite for Destruction, Axl Rose, Biffy Clyro, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Howard Stern, Jackson Pollock, Modern Love, Sex Pistols, Slash, Slayer, The Stooges, Tom Araya, Tommy Iommi on April 10, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. ”
-Jackson Pollock
Biffy Clyro, Scottish alternative band, recently produced a cover version of David Bowie’s song ‘Modern Love’ for The Howard Stern David Bowie Tribute Album. The transformation is radical, and no doubt confronting for those who remember the original. Continue reading
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Sauvage
Posted in Film with tags cinema verite, Jean Genet, MQFF, Sauvage on March 24, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
Twisted Valentine
Posted in Love letters, poetry with tags love, piercings, Shakespearean sonnet, sonnet, tattoos on February 14, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
Tattoos and piercings lodged in the weave of her becoming
A pale flame that undulates from my hips towards the ceiling
She feels like mine but is held within the darkness’ grip
Its heavy fingers printed in the slats between her ribs Continue reading
